Edward Norwood Allison was a son of Edward and Ethel Jane Allison
of Annfield Plain, Co. Durham.

According to the Roll of Honour published by the Society of Friends
of the Airborne Museum (Jan Hey 1999) Allison was given a field burial
west of Valkenburglaan in Oosterbeek. In a new edition of the Roll of
Honour (2011) it is written that Allison was given a field burial in a
mass grave near Van Tienhovenlaan, west of Sportlaan.